Rankings

In September 2012, the Dutch organisation for international cooperation in higher education Nuffic released an official report about the presence of international students in the Netherlands. According to Nuffic, currently 666,859 students are enrolled at Dutch universities. 87,100 are foreign students. According to these statistics, Fontys ranks second with 3.816 international students. As research university ranks first, Fontys is the most international university of applied sciences! If we have a […]

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance, which enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ educational performance. The report provides comparable national statistics about education for the 34 OECD member countries, as well as Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. Education at a Glance reviews education levels and student numbers, […]

Last week a group of young researchers at the Shanghai Jiaotong university were busy compiling the 9th version of the Academic Ranking of World Universities. This was first compiled in 2003 and was greeted like a bombshell in France as well as in several other countries. (More in a later post.) The 2012 once again confirmed the supremacy of American universities where more than half of the top 100 being […]